Women's Movements : Flourishing or in abeyance?

ISBN-13: 9780415462457 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 183 str.

Opis

Written by leading women's movement scholars, this book applies the idea of social movement abeyance to differing national and international contexts. It compares the trajectories of women's movements in Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, the Un

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part 1: In Abeyance?  2. The State of Women’s Movement/s in Britain  3. Autonomy and Engagement  4. Institutional, Incremental and Enduring  5. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The New Zealand Women’s Movement  6. The Politics of Backlash in the United States and Japan  Part 2: New Spaces  7. Gender Specialists and Global Governance: New Forms of Women’s Movement Mobilisation?  8. Campaigns for Candidate Gender Quotas: A New Global Women’s Movement?  9. Women in Cities  10. Cyberfeminism in Action  Part 3: New Feminist Activists  11. New Voices.  In Strong Hands: Young Women and the Future of Women’s Movements.  Australia.  Canada.  Japan.  Korea.  New Zealand.  Scotland.  United States